This was an interesting day in history. As you can see below, and on the History Channel's webpage, Bonnie and Clyde were caught on this days, nearly eighty years ago.
Some many centuries ago, Joan of Arc was also caught on this day in history, under very different circumstances, in a very different land, for very different reasons. The Netherlands declared independence from Spain. Benjamin Franklin came up with one of his most famous inventions: the bifocals. South Carolina became a state. Simon Bolivar became known as El Libertador. Buenos Aires became independent from Argentina, temporarily. In Canada, the North West Mounted Police, which would eventually become the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, formed. The New York Public Library,which is the largest public library in the United States, was dedicated by President Taft. Italy declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany during World War I. Himmler committed suicide following his capture following World War II. The Beatles made history a couple of times on this date, releasing one of my personal favorites as a writer, Paperback Writer, and opening an Apple store in London. Western nations, including the United States, rejected harsher sanctions against apartheid South Africa. Interesting day through history!
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/police-kill-famous-outlaws-bonnie-and-clyde
May 23, 1934: Police kill famous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde
On this day in 1934, notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police while driving a stolen car near Sailes, Louisiana.
Bonnie Parker met the charismatic Clyde Barrow in Texas when she was 19 years old and her husband (she married when she was 16) was serving time in jail for murder. Shortly after they met, Barrow was imprisoned for robbery. Parker visited him every day, and smuggled a gun into prison to help him escape, but he was soon caught in Ohio and sent back to jail. When Barrow was paroled in 1932, he immediately hooked up with Parker, and the couple began a life of crime together.
After they stole a car and committed several robberies, Parker was caught by police and sent to jail for two months. Released in mid-1932, she rejoined Barrow. Over the next two years, the couple teamed with various accomplices to rob a string of banks and stores across five states--Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, New Mexico and Louisiana. To law enforcement agents, the Barrow Gang--including Barrow's childhood friend, Raymond Hamilton, W.D. Jones, Henry Methvin, Barrow's brother Buck and his wife Blanche, among others--were cold-blooded criminals who didn't hesitate to kill anyone who got in their way, especially police or sheriff's deputies. Among the public, however, Parker and Barrow's reputation as dangerous outlaws was mixed with a romantic view of the couple as "Robin Hood"-like folk heroes.
Their fame was increased by the fact that Bonnie was a woman--an unlikely criminal--and by the fact that the couple posed for playful photographs together, which were later found by police and released to the media. Police almost captured the famous duo twice in the spring of 1933, with surprise raids on their hideouts in Joplin and Platte City, Missouri. Buck Barrow was killed in the second raid, and Blanche was arrested, but Bonnie and Clyde escaped once again. In January 1934, they attacked the Eastham Prison Farm in Texas to help Hamilton break out of jail, shooting several guards with machine guns and killing one.
Texan prison officials hired a retired Texas police officer, Captain Frank Hamer, as a special investigator to track down Parker and Barrow. After a three-month search, Hamer traced the couple to Louisiana, where Henry Methvin's family lived. Before dawn on May 23, Hamer and a group of Louisiana and Texas lawmen hid in the bushes along a country road outside Sailes. When Parker and Barrow appeared, the officers opened fire, killing the couple instantly in a hail of bullets.
All told, the Barrow Gang was believed responsible for the deaths of 13 people, including nine police officers. Parker and Barrow are still seen by many as romantic figures, however, especially after the success of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
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1275 - King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
1420 - Jews of Syria and Austria expelled
1421 - Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled
1430 - Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians and subsequently sold to the English.
1493 - King Charles VIII and Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis
1533 - Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
1536 - Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition
1544 - German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark
1555 - Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV
1568 - Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed
1568 - The Netherlands declared independence from Spain.
1576 - Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
1609 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
1611 - Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia
1618 - Second Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War, after four Catholic Lords Regents thrown out of window
1644 - Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
1647 - Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland
1660 - King Charles II returned from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
1667 - King Afonso VI of Portugal flees
1701 - In London, Captain William Kidd was hanged after being convicted of piracy and murdering William Moore.
1706 - Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeated French; 17,000 killed
1750 - Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo," premiered in Mantua
1774 - Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)
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1788 - South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify U.S. Constitution.
1813 - South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator")
1827 - The first nursery school in the U.S. was established in New York City.
1830 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began the first passenger service in the United States.
1844 - Declaration of Bab (Baha'i festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
1846 - Arabella Mansfield (Belle Aurelia Babb) was born. She was the first woman in the U.S. to pass the bar exam, though she never used her law degree.
1853 - Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
1861 - 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia
1861 - Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession
1862 - Battle at Front Royal, Virginia
1862 - Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft Royal, Virginia
1863 - Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1864 - Battle of Dallas, GA
1864 - Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting
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1865 - Flag flown at full staff over White House, first time since Lincoln shot
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1873 - Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established. The organization's name was changed to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920.
1873 - Postal cards sold in SF for the first time
1876 - Boston’s Joe Borden pitched the very first no-hitter in the history of the National League.
1879 - The first U.S. veterinary school was established by Iowa State University.
1882 - 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
1883 - 9th Kentucky Derby: William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43
1883 - Baseball game between one-armed and; one-legged players
1884 - 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39.5
1887 - First transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC
1894 - William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal
1895 - The New York Public Library was created with an agreement that combined the city's existing Astor and Lenox libraries.
1898 - First Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF
1900 - Associated Press News Service forms in NY
1900 - Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
1901 - American forces captured Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo.
1901 - 35th Belmont: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21
1901 - Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13
1901 - Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
1901 - US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
1903 - First automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1
1903 - First direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
1907 - The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
1908 - Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
1908 - Part of the Great White Fleet arrived in Puget Sound, WA.
1911 - On 5th Avenue in Manhattan, the New York Public Library, at the time the largest marble structure ever built in the United States, was dedicated by President Taft in New York City after 16 years of construction.
1915 - During World War I, Italy joined the Allies as they declared war on Austria-Hungary and Germany..
1916 - Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun
1917 - Dutch Second Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft
1918 - King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens
1920 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei
1921 - "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
1922 - "Abie's Irish Rose" opened in New York City, first of over 2,500 performances
1922 - Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
1922 - "Daylight Saving Time" was debated in the first debate ever to be heard on radio in Washington, DC.
1922 - Walt Disney incorporates his first film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1923 - First flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
1923 - Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline.
1926 - Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard
1926 - The French captured the Moroccan Rif capital.
1926 - Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate
1928 - Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
1931 - Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England
1932 - Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds
1934 - The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
1934 - In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.
1935 - First scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati)
1937 - Industrialist John D. Rockefeller died.
1938 - "LIFE" magazine’s cover pictured Errol Flynn as a glamour boy.
1939 - British decoration, George Cross, first presented
1939 - British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
1939 - Dmitri Shostakovitch appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1939 - Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
1939 - Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die
1940 - First great dogfight between Spitfires
1941 - Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5)
1943 - -24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
1943 - Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
1944 - British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy
1944 - Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front
1944 - Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead
1944 - Polo Grounds host 1st NYC night game since 1941
1945 - In Luneburg Germany, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, committed suicide at age 44, while imprisoned by the Allied forces.
1945 - British milt police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz
1945 - German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
1945 - Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary
1947 - PC Hooft prize forms for literature
1948 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs
1948 - Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel.
1949 - Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)
1951 - Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels," premieres in London
1953 - 79th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8
1953 - WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers
1956 - World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, SF
1958 - Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes
1958 - Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China
1958 - Explorer 1 ceases transmission. \
1959 - "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 44 perfs
1959 - Presbyterian church accepts women preachers
1960 - "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
1960 - "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24
1960 - Israel announced the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
1960 - WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast
1960 - WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
1962 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) agreed to transfer the Philadelphia Warriors to San Francisco, CA. The team became the San Francisco Warriors (and later the Golden State Warriors).
1962 - Joe Pepitone of the New York Yankees set a major league baseball record by hitting two home runs in one inning.
1962 - Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
1962 - OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life
1962 - Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
1963 - NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
1964 - Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45)
1965 - Franz Jonas elected president of Austria
1965 - Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150
1966 - Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
1967 - Government bans submarines near South Africa
1968 - AC Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam
1968 - Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
1969 - BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969 - Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes 1969 - Who release rock opera "Tommy" 1970 - Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside of US (England) 1970 - SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1970 - A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
1971 - Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
1974 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed
1977 - Benin adopts its constitution
1977 - Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell
1977 - Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11
1978 - AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M
1978 - General strike in Peru
1979 - "Kids Are All Right" premieres
1979 - First edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly"
1979 - Borussia Minchengladbach wins 8th UEFA Cup at Dusseldorf
1979 - Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
1979 - West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president
1980 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton
1981 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 501
1981 - In Barcelona, Spain, gunmen seized control of the Central Bank and took 200 hostages.
1982 - BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
1982 - Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
1982 - Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders divine
1983 - Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
1984 - Tottenham Hotspur win 13th UEFA Cup at London against Anderlecht
1984 - Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game
1985 - Thomas Patrick Cavanagh was sentenced to life in prison for trying to sell Stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
1986 - US and West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
1988 - Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
1989 - 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone
1989 - Lincoln Square in Bronx named
1989 - Division leading Cleveland Indians loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in first place (AL East)
1990 - A C Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna
1990 - Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26
1991 - Last Cubans troops leave Angola
1991 - Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0
1991 - San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship
1991 - US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion
1992 - NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game
1992 - Pres Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
1992 - In Lisbon, Portugal , the U.S. and four former Soviet republics signed an agreement to implement the START missile reduction treaty that had been agreed to by the Soviet Union before it was dissolved.
1994 - "Pulp Fiction" won the "Golden Palm" for best film at the 47th Cannes Film Festival.
1994 - 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia
1994 - Roman Herzog elected president of Germany
1994 - Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication
1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was demolished.
1995 - 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
1997 - "King David," closes at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
1997 - Moderate Mohammad Khatami was elected president of Iran.
1997 - Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV
1998 - The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.
1998 - British Protestants and Irish Catholics of Northern Ireland approved a peace accord.
1999 - In Kansas City, MO, Owen Hart (Blue Blazer) died when he fell 90 feet while being lowered into a WWF wrestling ring. He was 33 years old.
1999 - Gerry Bloch, at age 81, became the oldest climber to scale El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He broke his own record that he set in 1986 when he was 68 years old.
2002 - The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
2003 - The euro exceeds its initial trading value as it hits $1.18 for the first time since its introduction in 1999.
2004 - Part of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
2008 - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
The following web pages were what I primarily used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/day/may/23
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/may23.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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